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This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize– their goals.
Utah : reestablishes women's suffrage upon gaining statehood. [41] Idaho ; 1897 Siam: Formal provisions for female suffrage in village elections in Thailand date to the Local Administration Act of 1897. This makes Thailand the first major country in the world in which women and men achieved the vote on an equal basis simultaneously.
The campaign for women's suffrage started in 1923, when the women's umbrella organization Tokyo Rengo Fujinkai was founded and created several sub groups to address different women's issues, one of whom, Fusen Kakutoku Domei (FKD), was to work for the introduction of women's suffrage and political rights. [152]
The Catholic Women's Suffrage Society – founded in 1911; Church League for Women's Suffrage – founded in 1913; Jewish League for Woman Suffrage – founded in 1912, thought to be the only Jewish suffrage group in the world. [17] National Society for Women's Suffrage – Britain's first large suffrage organization, founded in 1867 by Lydia ...
The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press. Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission (1919). The Woman Citizen. Vol. 4 (Public domain ed.).
In 1897, the Manchester Women's Suffrage committee had merged with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) but Emmeline Pankhurst, who was a member of the original Manchester committee, and her eldest daughter Christabel had become impatient with the ILP, and on 10 October 1903, Emmeline Pankhurst held a meeting at her home in ...
Frances Gordon (born c. 1874) – prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement; imprisoned and force-fed; Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1926) – member of the executive committee of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and co-secretary of the Manchester and Salford Women's Trade Union Council
The term suffragettes was coined in January 1906 to refer to Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), a women-only group formed in Manchester, England, in 1903, to campaign for "votes for women". Unlike other women's-suffrage campaigners (known as "suffragists"), the WSPU was willing to engage in civil disobedience and ...